Category: Europe
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Eighty-five people were injured, 35 of them police officers, after flares were launched at a stand and supporters stormed the pitch at a German Cup match. Why flares are more dangerous than fireworks, and the long argument about legalising them.
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ChatGPT begins carrying advertising in 31 European markets today. Why adverts inside a conversation differ from adverts beside search results, what the privacy commitment actually covers, and the incentive problem underneath.
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A second strike hit Kryvyi Rih’s shopping centre 26 minutes after the first, while rescuers worked. What “double-tap” means, which rules of war it engages, why intent is so hard to establish — and why the term still belongs in coverage.
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A Ukrainian drone killed two children in Russia’s Krasnodar region on Saturday; Russian strikes killed at least six in Ukraine, a day after a drone attack on a Kryvyi Rih shopping centre killed 16. Why we count the dead on both sides, and what the interceptor shortage has to do with it.
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Pope Leo XIV praised San Marino as a model of political freedom on Saturday, then travelled to Rimini for the Communion and Liberation meeting — the first pope to attend since John Paul II in 1982. Why the second half of the day is the political one.
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Four European states have urged Israel to halt settlement expansion; Turkey, Egypt and Qatar condemned strikes in Gaza. Why the statement came from four countries and not the EU, what the legal claim rests on, and how to tell which diplomatic moves matter.
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Ukraine is running short of interceptor missiles as strikes continue. The arithmetic that makes air defence unsustainable, why attacks are structured to exhaust it, and what a shortage looks like for cities that lose coverage.
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Frontex says irregular crossings into the EU fell 26 per cent to almost 178,000. What that figure counts, why a fall is hard to attribute to any policy, and the number that does not move in step with it.
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Ukrainian drones hit a refinery in Tatarstan and an oil terminal in Krasnodar overnight. Why a refinery and a terminal are different targets, why the distance is the point, and why damaging refineries can raise crude exports rather than cut them.
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At least twelve people were killed in an hours-long ballistic missile and drone attack on Kyiv, with a children’s hospital among the buildings damaged. Why the toll will move, what “damaged” does and does not establish, and why the two weapons were sent together.